raw currant cashew cake (Russia)
This beautiful image comes from Komi, Russia. The sender wrote entirely in Russian on the back; I’m pleased with my ability to decode the handwriting and type it into Google translate to discover that the sender wrote a poem (I think!). It made me think: I can decode at least five writing systems… in descending order of ability, they are:
Latin alphabet (e.g. English, Spanish, Tagalog)
Hanzi characters (e.g. Chinese, parts of Japanese)
Hangul alphabet (e.g. Korean)
Cyrillic alphabet (e.g. Russian, Bulgarian)
Greek alphabet (e.g. Greek)
I should really learn a syllabary (e.g. Cherokee, parts of Japanese), an abugida (e.g. Hindi), and an abjad (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew) to round out my script abilities!
